Amasan – Common sense 2.0

Commentary on Digital Media and Usability

Youtube Dreamweaver CS3 Tips

April 28th, 2008 ·

Brian Wood presents an excellent Dreamweaver tips video on Youtube. Many people just use DW as a text-editor but it’s capable of a lot more even in code view. The following video might open your eyes:

Very nice.

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Recommended: Instapaper

March 30th, 2008 ·

I’d like to start recommending webservices  and software that I use frequently. Any product recommended has been evaluated for at least several weeks. In today’s recommended we feature Instapaper. (Recommendation articles are personal opinions with no benefit for the author)
What does Instapaper do? Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content.
We discover web content throughout [...]

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It should be free?

March 28th, 2008 ·

Should simple software be free:

During the chat, the entire MacBreak Weekly crew discussed the danger to the music industry that comes from younger listeners having a built-in expectation that music should be free.
On this episode I believe [Leo Laporte] has inadvertently helped to perpetuate the same kind of thinking about software that the panel had [...]

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AltTabFingertips

January 14th, 2008 ·

What it does
I made a small AHK script I thought you might want to use: AltTab Fingertips. Press a configurable hotkey (F10 by default), and get a menu at the mouse with all the current windows on it. You can exclude processes using the tray menu.
Many thanks to ak_ for creating “menu at cursor” [...]

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No-one knows the value of software but let’s not guess

October 29th, 2007 ·

It’s impossible to know if software is worth the asking price, even if it’s free, if you haven’t used it. Value of software only becomes apparent over time. It takes time to evaluate and learn the software, to manage your information with it, and to fit it in your workflow. Only after that you know [...]

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